Bible verses advocate genocide against pagan/heathen natives
by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
On the 18th day of October, 2012, Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN), the world's largest
Indian news source, republished
A 1993 Open Letter To Pope John Paul II.
And on October 19th, the editors of ICTMN approved and posted a comment of mine in response to
the open letter. Another comment of mine was posted on the 23rd.
Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), an ICTMN columnist and one of the three signatories
of the letter, said: The letter was sent to the Vatican by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights
but we never received an official response."
I occasionally correspond with Newcomb. He has given
his support for
initiatives of mine associated with the purpose of the open letter to Pope John Paul II.
And ICTMN often approves and posts
comments and letters of mine.
A part of the open letter to Pope John Paul II reads:
Five hundred years ago, your predecessor, Pope Alexander VI, issued the
now famous Inter Caetera bull. That papal decree expressed
the pope's desire that "barbarous nations," those "discovered," be "subjugated"
and reduced to the Catholic faith and Christian religion.
He said that in this way, the "Christian empire" would be propagated.
The Inter Caetera bull was in direct line with an earlier bull
issued in 1452 by Pope Nicholas V to King Alfonso V of Portugal,
which called upon the king, "to invade, search out, capture,
vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans, whatsoever, and
other enemies of Christ." Pope Nicholas also directed
Alfonso to take away and convert the non-Christians' possessions and property,"
and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery."
Now in 1993, the "International Year of the World's Indigenous People,"
as declared by the United Nations, our spiritual elders tell us
that it is time for the Age of Subjugation to end. During
that age, the traditional nations and peoples of the Western
Hemisphere have endured what historian David Stannard has
referred to as the worst holocaust in the history of humanity.
For many of us it still continues. It is now time to acknowledge
that the papal documents mentioned above directly contributed
to our suffering, misery, and to the genocide committed against us.
1) For generations now, the Church has taught our people that our own
ceremonial traditions are "heathen" and "pagan." Many of us have
been taught to fear, ridicule and even deny our own family
members who follow traditional ceremonial practices. Your
revocation of the papal bull will begin to remove this legacy
of fear and judgment from the hearts and minds of our people.
*********************************************************************************
My first ICTMN comment reads:
Will the current Pope apologize for genocide? Probably not! Why?
Because Bible verses advocate genocide against pagan/heathen natives.
"You must drive all the natives of the land before you. If you
do not drive the natives of the country before you then those who
remain will become disgusting to your eyes and a thorn in your side.
They will harass you in the land where you live, and I will
deal with you as I meant to deal with them." Num. 33:51
The Lord hath said..."I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." Psalm 2 KJV
******************************************************************************
More about this topic:
The Christian invasion and conquest of the Western Hemisphere caused the deaths of upwards of 90
percent of the indigenous population of around 100 million. Father Junipero Serra built 21
missions that extended up the United States' west coast to San Francisco, California.
Serra used the native populations
as slaves to maintain the missions, working the people to death.
Christopher Columbus and his men also enslaved natives and worked them to death. They also
used innocent native people for dog food. The dogs would tare the natives to "pieces" and
then eat them.
-
-
Father Bartolome de Las Casas was the first European historian
in the Americas. When referring to the European Christians' first forty years
of genocidal behavior in the Americas he wrote:
"They are still acting like ravening beasts, killing, terrorizing,
afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples, doing all this
with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or
heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola
once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more
than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons."
Bartolome de Las Casas also wrote: "They built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground
and prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor
of Christ Our Savior and the twelve Apostles. When the Indians were
thus still alive and hanging, the Spaniards tested their strength
and their blades against them, ripping chests open with one blow
and exposing entrails, and there were those who did worse.
Then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they
were burned alive."
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as they do
when they do it from religious conviction"
the French philosopher [Blaise Pascal] (1670).
"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
the American philosopher [Thomas Paine].
The god of the Bible said: Slavery is an everlasting institution. Slaves are
to obey their masters in everything. LE 25:44-46, DT 15:17, EP 6:5, CN 3:22, TS 2:9, PE 2:18
The god of the Bible said kill all of the male Midianite children and kill every
woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl
who has never slept with a man." NUMBERS 31:17-18
God divided the plunder to the soldiers, the priest, the Israelites and for
tribute to the Lord. ...61,000 donkeys and 32,000 virgin women. NUMBERS 31:31-40
The god the Bible takes credit for creating evil, as well as good? ( Isaiah. 45:7)
Read more about what the god of the
Bible said and did
HERE.
Genesis 1:31 says: And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good.
St. Symeon wrote: "Neither Eve nor Paradise were yet created, but the whole world
had been brought into being by God as one thing, as a kind of paradise, at
once incorruptible yet material and perceptible."
St. John of Damascus wrote: "The creation of all things is due to
God, but corruption came in afterwards due to our wickedness...For
God did not make death, neither does He take delight in the
destruction of living things" (Wisdom 1:13). But death is the
work rather of man, that is, its origin is in Adam's transgression."
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov wrote: "Plants were not subjected
either to decay or to diseases; both decay and diseases and the
weeds themselves, appeared after the alteration of the earth
following the fall of man."
St. Basil the Great wrote: "...it is customary
for vultures to feed on corpses, but since there
were not yet corpses, nor yet their stench, so
there was not yet such food for vultures. But all
followed the diet of swans and all grazed the
meadows...the beasts were not carnivores...such
was the first creation, and such will be the
restoration after this."
Modern-day science teaches that the first animal fossils date
to about 600 million years ago and that the first humans came into existence
around 1.8 million years ago. Science also teaches that since the first animals came into
existence corruption and death have ruled the world, and that it was not "a kind of paradise"
on earth before the "first humans committed original sin." Many of the dinosaurs
were carnivores. Around 50 million years ago the dinosaurs were killed due to
a massive meteor shower on earth. At the time, a time before humans existed, where were
a lot of corpses for the vultures to eat. At the time, the world was violent and brutal. The world was
NOT "very good" or "pure" at its origins, nor has it been any time since.
The Catechism of the Catholic
Church says: "Jesus came to restore creation to the
purity of its origins."
The U.S. Catholic Bishops wrote: "The whole Bible is
spanned by the narrative of the first creation (Gn 1:3)
and the vision of a restored creation at the end
of history" (RV. 21:1-4)
Modern-day science has proven these - Bible scripture based - Catholic dogmas/teachings to be untrue and
deceptive. Therefore, modern-day science has made Christianity and the Roman Catholic Religion an
out-dated religion.
Millions of Native Americans were put to death for not
accepting "the true god." To read more about this atrocity click
here
Christianity's "true God and Lord" commanded that an empire-building genocide be committed against
natives and that their bodies be "dashed in pieces".
15th Century Popes and their people obeyed the genocidal command of their cruel "god".
And modern-day Popes have not been able to apologize for this, which is why the genocide continues to
this present-day. And an "inspired" Bible verse has the nerve to ask:
WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?
"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of
the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break
their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth
in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
his sore displeasure - Psalm 2 KJV.
Saint Augustine wrote that the Bible verse: "Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away
their cords from us" means "let us do our endeavour, that the Christian religion
does not bind us, nor be imposed upon us."
I believe that some of the Bible scriptures were inspired by God. And I am a follower of
Jesus Christ and believe in God the Father. However, I have a New Age
Gnostic religious (or, heathen/pagan)
view and belief of who Jesus and God the Father are. And I,
along with others, are taking council together, against the genocidal "Lord" (the God of Abraham), and
against his genocidal Christian "Anointed". And we are saying: "Let us break their bands asunder, and
cast away their cords from us."
Why do the heathen rage?
My second ICTMN comment reads:
In the 4th comment a Bible verse is presented: "Why do the heathen rage,
and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set
themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord,
and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast away their cords from us." Saint Augustine wrote that
the Bible verse: "Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away
their cords from us" means "let us do our endeavour, that the
Christian religion does not bind us, nor be imposed upon us."
An official United Nations
document about the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues Eleventh Session states: Robert Williams,
Professor of Native American Studies, University of Arizona,
who spoke on yesterday's panel on the Discovery Doctrine,
said that [outrage] over the Doctrine explained the
repeated and compelling calls for the General Assembly
to renounce such documents, and to make it clear that
they could not be used by States to claim indigenous
lands, territories or natural resources.
In respect to the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a growing number
of Christian leaders are beginning to protest against
these rights, because they believe that they stand
in the way of their efforts to impose the Christian
religion on indigenous peoples.
One Christian leader wrote: "Indigenous peoples' territorial,
demonic nature spirits are being supported, entrenched and
empowered by the occult New Age political world leaders,
through the esoteric United Nations organization." Are the United Nations'
"political world leaders" the "kings of the earth" mentioned in Psalm 2 KJV?
*********************************************************************************
Here are two more statements by a Christian leader:
'International co - operation' is being amalgamated against Christian action to
set free the Demonically enslaved indigenous people of the globe.
'State measures' to prevent "any interference with or encroachment upon
these rights", which means that the international laws will forbid the
spread of the Good News of Christ Jesus' death on the cross for the
indigenous peoples of the world.
*********************************************************************************
I believe that the "political world leaders" of the United Nations are the "kings
of the earth" mentioned in Psalm 2 and that the "kings of the earth"
will come forth victourous and remain victorious. There will be no ultimate
victory (as predicted in the bible) for the genocidal "Lord"
and his genocidal Christian "Anointed."
*********************************************************************************
An on-line article about this topic is located
here.
Excerpts from the article read:
Adam Hamilton has the honor of leading the largest United Methodist congregation
in the United States. More than 8,600 attend services each week, and the Kansas congregation is
considered by many to be America's most influential mainline Protestant church.
Hamilton wrote: In the Hebrew Bible we find God putting to death 70,000 Israelites
to punish David for taking a census. We have God commanding Joshua to slaughter
every man, woman and child in 31 entire kingdoms in the Canaan as a kind of offering
to God. This is what, today, we would call genocide. God commands priests to
burn their daughters alive if they become prostitutes. I cannot imagine God
calling me to burn one of my children alive, regardless of what they had done.
Other ancient near eastern people believed their gods also called them to
slaughter entire cities as an offering to their gods, so this seems to have
been a common cultural understanding about the relationship between war
and the gods.
Explanation: As To How Christian European Colonial Assumptions
Of Domination-Subordination [Of Indigenous Peoples] Originated
An article of mine about this topic is located
here.
Two another articles about this topic are located
here and
here.
